Twitter Tests New Technique To Deal With Misinformation
Twitter recently launched a new way to deal with misinformation with a manual reporting option that will enable users to flag tweets that contain potentially misleading claims. The new option, available to some users, adds an additional ‘It’s misleading’ option to tweet reporting tools. Users have the capacity to flag the tweet in question under […]
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Twitter recently launched a new way to deal with misinformation with a manual reporting option that will enable users to flag tweets that contain potentially misleading claims. The new option, available to some users, adds an additional ‘It’s misleading’ option to tweet reporting tools.
Users have the capacity to flag the tweet in question under ‘Politics’, ‘Health’ or ‘Something else’, giving users space to address misinformation on the platform.
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Twitter’s idea is not to stamp out specific tweets based on each users’ report but if 100 or 1,000 people report the same tweet for ‘political misinformation’, for example, that’ll likely get Twitter’s attention, while it might also help Twitter identify what users don’t want to see, and want the platform to take action against, to help improve the tweet process.
Twitter stated that it is starting out small, with selected users in certain parts of the world. From there, Twitter will learn what works and what doesn’t, and determine if this helps to highlight elements of concern, and improve its response to such.
